Angel Quotes - Page 17

• It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Kind, Ass, Said

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.204, Macmillan

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• Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Son, Animal, Men

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 60,

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• I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.

  Nelson Rodrigues

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• If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Song, Believe, Long

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

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• No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Self, World, Earth

  "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (p. 15), 1930.

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• Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

  Alan Judd

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

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• You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James E. Faust taught, “Priesthood is the authority delegated to man to minister in the name of God. “The Aaronic Priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels.
  As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you. You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

  David L. Beck

  Children, Father, Men

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• I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

  Carmen Boullosa

  Wings, Desert, Arms

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• Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Midsummer, Mid Summer Nights Dream

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [131]

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• Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

  Benjamin

  Dream, Spring, Sunset

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• The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, Struggle, Shadow

  "Angels & Demons (United States, 2009)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2009.

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• Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.

  Mike Patton

  Guitar, Dust, Play

  "Dangerous Jokers". Nieuwe Revu Magazine, May 17-24, 1995.

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• Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

  Suetonius

  Mirrors, Balance, Monsters

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• The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

  Tony Rothman

  Moving, Eye, Night

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• The most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't be seen. This isn't a new concept. Judaism and Christianity and Islam and Buddhism and Taoism have all taught for thousands of years that the highest forms of reality are invisible. God is invisible, and he created the universe. Our souls are invisible, and they give life to our bodies. Angels are invisible, and they're the most powerful of God's creatures.

  Anthony DeStefano

  Powerful, Eye, Buddhism

  Anthony DeStefano (2012). “Angels All Around Us: A Sightseeing Guide to the Invisible World”, p.18, Image

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• You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

  Chili Davis

  Yankees, Gears, Goodwill

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• For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Christopher Smart

  Flower, Blessing, Roots

  Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3”

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• If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Men, Religion, Morality

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

  John D. Voelker

  Beer, Men, Lakes

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• I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

  George Carlin

  Bullshit, Zombie, Atheism

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• The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

  Edward Gibbon

  Guilt, Atheism, Battle

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.73

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• In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Fun, Atheism, Climate

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• When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Children, Heaven, Atheism

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• Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

  Edmund Spenser

  Gratitude, Thankfulness, Tunes

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• I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

  John Zorn

  Energy, Legacy, Messages

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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